1956 Movies

First film in the festival trilogy

A 1956 LOST Indian Bengali film starring Mahanayak Uttam Kumar.

A tour of the Manzanares River and its influence on the urban layout and customs of the city of Madrid.

Shyamali, who is both hearing and speech impaired, faces several struggles in life. While the man she marries supports her, she is not accepted by her...

Painter Wang Zijian is saved from drowning by Aying, the daughter of a fishing folk. Their relationship becomes an intimate one. When Wang's father pr...

Depiction of the harsh life in a rural town in Yamagata.

Negina, a talented actress at a provincial theater, must leave the stage because her purity of behavior is incompatible with theatrical customs. She l...

At the time when Człowiek na torze [Man on the Track] was being made, the erosion of orthodox aesthetic canons began with the social and observational...

Black Tulip

A romance between a clumsy knight and a damsel in distress.

Petya meets his father from a partisan detachment in the Odessa Catacombs.

At a GDR farm, VEAB chief Amann bans cabbage in favor of cauliflower, enraging LPG accountant Gritt. Mistaking visiting writer Hans Brauer for a high-...

A parody of a well-known text by Rudyard Kipling.

An introduction to Chinese puppet shows, including two plays: "Jiang Gan Steals Books" and "The Road Fights the Injustice" ("Lei Wanchun Fights the Ti...

Rangeen Raaten is a 1956 Hindi film starring Shammi Kapoor, Mala Sinha and Geeta Bali in lead roles. The music was composed by Roshan.

The simple and good-natured coachman Henschel has a sick wife and a deceitful maid who looks after the household. The wife makes him promise never to...